European regulators overseeing next year’s long-awaited banking stress tests are preparing to penalise lenders that remain reliant on the European Central Bank’s landmark cheap funding scheme.
The move will cause further friction in the banking sector as it underlines the tension between the need to maintain liquidity to lenders and attempts to wean them off ECB support.
The European Banking Authority, the EU’s umbrella regulator, plans to measure banks’ reliance on the ECB’s long-term financing operation, or LTRO, according to people familiar with its thinking.
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